cancers
\kɑ̃.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“cancers” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,650
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cancers · cancers · French
cancers · rank #10,650 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,650
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Bulgarie
Nearest frequency peer: Bulgarie (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cancers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bourges
Bourges
89,354 corpus weight
- briller
briller
89,353 corpus weight
- Bulgarie
Bulgarie
89,352 corpus weight
- cancers
cancers
89,351 corpus weight
- cantine
cantine
89,350 corpus weight
- catholicisme
catholicisme
89,348 corpus weight
What this shows « cancers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cancers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cancers (IPA \kɑ̃.sɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,650 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cancer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cancers, with forms such as "acncers", "cacners", and "canccers". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "cannes", "concert", "chances", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cancers, spelled C-A-N-C-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cancers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La recherche d’inhibiteurs de protéines anti-apoptotiques afin de rétablir l’apoptose constitue une piste sérieuse pour le traitement de certains cancers.
Le fait d’avoir été victime de violences sexuelles dans l’enfance constitue également un facteur de risque pour plusieurs maladies chroniques. C’est le cas notamment des maladies cardiovasculaires, pulmonaires, du diabète ainsi que de certains cancers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acncers
- cacners
- canccers
- cancerrs
- cancerss
- cancesr
- cancres
- canecrs
- canncers
- ccancers
- cnacers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cancers - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cancers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).